The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-04
Local and State Notes.

G. B. McConaha has been appointed freight
and ticket agent of the Vandalia at Marshall
Crossing.
The officers of the c.. H. & D. next week
make their annual inspection over the several
divisions.
In the month of October $50 cars were loaded
with mixed freights at the Vandalia freight
depot to go West.
sentative of the Lackawanna fast-freight line in
the Terre Haute district
R. A. Starbuck has been appointed chief train
> dispatcher of the l., D. s. s road, vice L. A.
Boyd promoted to the superintendency.
The l., d. & S. road has brought into this
market this week over 100 carloads of hogs,
yesterday bringing in thirty five car loads.
Most OF the roads are taking off their con-
struction trains and reducing the number of
section men to four. including the foreman.
After completing the survey the L.. n A. &
C. people seem to have abandoned the scheme
OF building a branch from cambridge to Brazil,
Ind
The Lake Erie & Western people will lay
1900 feet of additional sde-track north of the
city to accommodate the private industries
located on their tracks, or near by.
There is good authority for saying that
further changes in important positions on the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg are to be
made in the near future, all in the line Of pro-
motion.
The Indiana Midland is pushing its track
Westward, and with it telegraph wire is put pp
Il is stated that the work the road is done
Eery thoroughly. Special care is taken to have
.ood bridges
The i. e st. L. this we k received nine miles
of steel rail. weighing seventy pounds to the
Yard which is to take the place OF the light steel
N what is known as Happy Hollow" where
here are some sharp curves.
The indianapolis & Vincennes road last month
brought into this station l. 3S carloads of coal
against 622 in October 1886. From the mines
On this road four Indianapolis roads are fur
nished with coal besides the L Sc V.
H. B. Hammond, receiver of the l.. ID. & S.
road is better and will come West about the
middle of the month General Solicitor Pierce
thinks the road will be taken out of the
hands of the courts about the 18th of this
month
In the month of October there were handled at
the city freight depots of the Pennsylvania
lines &c. l22, 127 pounds of mixed freiehrs rep
resenting 2. 1913 cars. against %, 400, &C., repre-
sentine 2 Col cars, last year Increase this year,
2,7l5, 400 pounds.
The directors and officers of the Chicago g.
Eastern Illinois road. and of the Chicago q Ind-
Sna Coal road. are this week inspecting both
properties. r. r. Cable, president of the Chi
cago q Rock Island, and FL. Fl. Porter
prominent in the party.
Nearly all the Western roads are preparing to
adopt the trunk-line plan of keeping mile
age and accounts of this character with foreign
roads, which is to charge 10 cents per day for all
time the car is on foreign road, and cent per
mile for every mile run.
The rates on hogs from Indianapolis to Buffalo
or Pirtsburg. over 400 miles. are l61 cents per
100 pounds. while from Indianapolis to Louis
wills or Cincinnati, but ITO miles, they are IL
cents per 100 pounds. This certainly is not a
fair adjustment 1t is said that thousands of
hogs would be shipped from the Indianapolis
Tards TO Louisville and clpeinnati we're the rate